We plan to share an overview of the primary areas that the ISO 14001 standard deals with:

Environmental Policy

Commitment to Continuous Improvement, Prevention of Pollution and compliance with legislation.

Planning

For the implementation of ISO 14001, the organisation needs to consider its risk and opportunities and assess the aspects of its activities on the environment. From this analysis the scope of what it is targeting to achieve can be determined and objectives set that are realistic.

Implementation and Operation

An organisation needs to provide the resources as well as adopting operational controls including any in emergency and abnormal conditions .

Checking and Corrective Action

Including auditing the system to confirm effective implementation, and to identify improvements. Monitoring and measures of the system allow evidence based decisions to be made on focus and resourcing improvements in the environmental management system.